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WAND Education Fund Board of Directors
May 2009
The Board
is composed of women of various ages and religious beliefs who come from a variety of economic backgrounds and geographical locations.

WAND Education Fund Chair
Councilor Charleta Tavares, OH
The first African-American woman to hold a leadership position in the Ohio General Assembly (Minority Whip; representing 22nd House District for five and a half years), Tavares has been a member of the Columbus City Council since 1999. She has served as Chief of the Children’s Protection Section in the Ohio AG’s office, Associate Director of the Public Children Services Association of Ohio, and is now the Chair of the City Council’s Health, Housing and Human Services Committee.

Edith Allen, MA
Edie Allen is an artist and activist with years of experience organizing and recruiting for WAND. She is president of the Colombe Foundation, which supports peace organizations, and also president of an artisans' cooperative in Wellesley, Massachusetts.
Sierra Maire Campoli, IN
Sierra grew up in rural Mishawaka, Indiana. This past May she graduated with a BA in communications from Saint Mary’s College Notre Dame, Indiana. While at St. Mary’s, started a STAND chapter and worked as community liaison for “Peacemakers.” Sierra is currently an account executive for WBYT radio station B100 and a new board member.
Hon. Mary Cathcart, ME
Mary Cathcart served three terms (1988-1994) in the Maine House of Representatives and four terms (1996-2004) as State Senator;
where she chaired the Joint Standing Committee on Appropriations and Financial Affairs and the Joint Select Committee on Research and Development. She ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 1994 and was then appointed by former U.S. Senator George J. Mitchell to chair the U.S. Commission on Child and Family Welfare. After reaching her term limit in the Maine Senate, Mary joined the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center at the University of Maine, where she is co-director of Maine NEW Leadership, a nonpartisan program designed to educate and inspire women college students to become engaged politically. Mary serves as a Delegate to, and is past chair of, the New England Board of Higher Education, and is on several nonprofit boards. She became involved with WAND in the early 1990's when she attended her first WiLL conference.
Representative Merika Coleman, AL
Merika was elected to the Alabama House of Representatives in 2002. Representative Coleman received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Mass Communication and her Master of Public Administration Degree from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Representative Coleman was a 2004 Fleming Fellow with the Center for Policy Alternatives, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization working to strengthen the capacity of "Citizen Legislators."
Hon. Joyce Elliott, AR
A State Representative who was termed out in 2006, Ms. Elliott earned her bachelor's degree from Southern Arkansas University and her master's degree in education from Quachita Baptist University. Ms. Elliott is a public school teacher. She is a member of the board of the Arkansas-American Federation of Teachers and the College Board of Trustees. She also is a member of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.

Rep. Jessia Farrar, TX
In her fifth term as state representative from northeast Houston, Rep. Farrar works on issues such as domestic violence, access to higher education, assistance for community-development corporations, and economic development. In 1998, she began a mentoring program for promising young women, called Latinas on the Rise.

Jean Gordon, AR
Ms. Gordon has been an active member in the peace, social justice, and civil rights movements for many years. She chaired Arkansas’ Peace Links Board and Peace Center Boards where she edited a bi-monthly newsletter showing the effects of the military budget on state residents.
She founded and chairs Arkansas WAND, and recently received an Arkansas Peace & Justice Heroes award from the OMNI Center in Fayetteville.

Senator Toni N. Harp, CT
Toni is serving her eighth consecutive term representing the 10th Senatorial District. Toni was awarded citations by the National Association of Social Workers, the Connecticut Association for Human Services, the New Haven Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the New Haven Club of the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs, Incorporated. She was also honored as one of New Haven Business' 20 Noteworthy Women.

Linda Kushner, RI
Linda Kushner, a former Rhode Island state legislator, was president of the Friends of Rochambeau Branch Library and is a founding member of the Library Reform Group.

June Mathiowetz, MN
June currently works as the Sustainability Project Coordinator with the City of Minneapolis. She completed her masters' degree in Public Policy at the University of Minnesota and has long standing interests in foreign policy, the environment and development of democracy. June's peace activism has roots with the Minneapolis-based Women Against Military Madness and the people of Mexico and Ecuador who profoundly shaped her world view by sharing their lives and stories with her during her undergraduate years.

Betsy Rivard, GA
Betsy has been active in Atlanta WAND for about 16 years, serving on the board for at least eight years. Her chemistry background and Oak Ridge, TN past (her father worked for the Atomic Energy Commission) made her concerned about the nuclear issue (weapons and power). Betsy also serves on the boards of the UN Association of the USA, Nuke Watch South, Georgians for Gun Safety, and the Chattooga Conservatory.
Sayre Sheldon, MA
A founding member of WAND and President Emerita of the National WAND Board, Sayre has been a long time political and social activist. She is a college professor of literature and an author of several plays and articles about women's issues and peace issues. She edited the anthology Her War Story: 20th Century Women Write About War, published in 1999 by Southern Illinois University Press. She represents WAND as an NGO at the United Nations.
Jessica Wilbanks, TX
Jessica is an M.F.A. candidate in fiction at the University of Houston and a Senior Consultant for Faithful Security: the National Religious Partnership on the Nuclear Weapons Danger, an organization she helped to found. Faithful Security is a national coalition of religious organizations, clergy, and laity committed to taking action to reduce and eliminate nuclear weapons. Jessica's previous projects include developing a national coalition of students speaking out to protect Social Security and working as an organizer with MoveOn PAC during the 2004 presidential elections.

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